K. Wallace King’s recent short fiction appears in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Chthonic Matter, Nightscript, The Opiate, Underland Arcana, the 2024 double Shirley Jackson Award winning, Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic Anthology, and will be serialized in The Stygian Lepus in January and February of ’25. Ellen Datlow found her story in Chthonic Matter “notable,” in Volume 16 of The Best Horror of the Year. She lives in Hollywood, California, where the handprints of dreamers are pressed into the sidewalks.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies December 16, 1932 The sun was as hot as the Fourth of July, though it was almost Christmas. I ran a finger over the note in my pocket: I like what you wrote about that creep who killed the kids. Show […]